Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Are we entering the next ice age? One of the foundations of scientific inquiry is skepticism. Contrary to what some believe, science is not about consensus but about leaving all doors of inquiry open to all possibilities. It takes only one point of evidence to disprove an entire theory. Progress
Continue readingUnless you’ve been on a camping trip in a remote wilderness for the past few days, you’ve heard about the video that a British climate change advocacy group prepared. The short video takes you through a variety of settings (classrooms, workplaces, sports fields), in which people are encouraged to diminish
Continue readingI have to say that this video actually made me giggle, because having all of Al Gore’s doom-and-gloom compressed to less than 2 minutes, and then playing Pomp & Circumstance in the background, is more like a cartoon than anything else. Then again I didn’t have to listen to the
Continue readingI truly intended to fisk algore’s op-ed at the New York Times, in which he explains why global warming is still so important that the world should continue its task of turning him into the first green-based billionaire. I was foiled, however, by the fact that I couldn’t step giggling
Continue readingI’ve been reading Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem, by Simon Singh. Normally, I’d shy away from a book like this — after all, it’s about math! — but it was required reading for my book club, and it’s proven to be delightful. To
Continue readingThis is one of Steyn’s best, and that’s saying a lot. Here are my two favorite parts from his column on Copenhagen: [T]he Prince of Wales is simultaneously heir to the thrones of Britain, Australian, Tuvalu, and a bunch of other countries. His Royal Highness was also in Copenhagen last
Continue readingSome things go out with a whimper. Global warming may well be going out with a bang. The latest news from Russia is the claim that the global warming scientists didn’t just have faulty code and highly massaged numbers. It turns out that they also messed with the underlying data,
Continue readingThere is something deeply, deeply wrong with the Obami and the Congressional Democrats. Or maybe not. Maybe they are just all too human and are living out that saying that “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In this case, the corruption isn’t necessarily monetary (although that’s there too). Instead,
Continue readingMy daughter is a very reluctant Girl Scout, only because her best friend, an equally reluctant Girl Scout, is in there due to parental pressure. In Spring, we sell cookies, and I buy the minty kind. Might have to stop selling and buying, though, because it turns out that, not
Continue readingMy post title is a bit of an exaggeration. It’s not clear that the science is fraudulent. It’s just clear that the scientist is fraudulent: A sweeping California regulation aimed at cutting hazardous pollution from diesel engine exhaust could be derailed after a key state researcher on the project was
Continue readingI can’t do better than to quote from the Wall Street Journal on the EPA ruling, which constitutes nothing more than an undemocratic takeover of all business activity and most government activity in this country: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said yesterday that her ruling that greenhouses gases are dangerous pollutants
Continue readingIn the wake of the emails that an anonymous whistleblower published, those of us who aren’t scientists have been able to figure out that something is very, very wrong with the AGW data. Still, all the science stuff is confusing, especially the bit about “hide the decline.” Thankfully, at American
Continue reading[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgPUpIBWGp8[/youtube] I don’t find Stewart at all amusing — but I love the fact that, through his leaden efforts, a generation that relies on him for the news is being told that they’ve been force-fed Kool-Aid.
Continue readingThe whole sordid story of the corruption of science at one of the world’s premier institutions that has been pushing the man-made global warming theory sounded vaguely familiar to me, but I couldn’t figure out why. It was only last night that I finally realized that the debate perfectly parallels
Continue readingI realize that, with readers all over the world, speaking about “morning” is a bit silly, but I can only function according to the rules of my own time zone. I’m up, but so are the kids, and the “getting ready for school” drill is in full swing. It’s definitely
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